Yelets.

It was a military fortress on the border of Tsarist Russia, and in order to defend the Eastern Empire from the Golden Horde, the number of Yelets' garrisons increased from 8,000 to 30,000 over the years.

During this period, the Yerets military fortress was repeatedly fortified and sat like a large mountain on the road to the hinterland of Tsarist Russia.

As in every morning, Oleg led his scout team to survey the steppe after breakfast, which was his daily task.

When he first received the mission, he was excited and apprehensive, always worried that he would be discovered by the Empire's lancers.

Armed to the teeth, these Imperial scouts were so brave and accurate in their marksmanship that if discovered, they would hardly be able to make it back to Yerets alive.

But after a few rounds of team changes, Oleg became smarter, he no longer went to the route reconnaissance that the Imperial scouts often appeared, but often wandered around aimlessly and came back, after all, the Empire has not crossed the line in these years, and early warning reconnaissance is useless.

And his team members are not willing to die at the hands of the Imperial Scouts, and they have a tacit understanding with him to cover up this behavior.

Of course, the route he chose was not worthless, and sometimes he could still find some traces of the Empire's actions.

For example, in an area to the east of the Imperial military fortress, Imperial scouts patrolled very frequently and intensively, as if they were hiding some secrets.

And today, as he made his way to the area, he finally discovered the anomaly.

In front of them, dark green, strangely shaped steel monsters were heading in the direction of Yelets, followed by different machines with soldiers loaded with guns on them.

"What the hell is this?" Oleg felt his soul stiffen for a moment, and this fear of the unknown caused him to turn his horse's head and gallop towards Yelets with his teammates.

Leaning out of the tank, Qi Guangyi held binoculars and watched the fleeing scouts.

patted the heavy body of the tank, and then looked at the personnel carrier following behind the tank cluster, Qi Guangyi's demeanor seemed a little relaxed.

According to the emperor's order, this time he concentrated all the machinery in the military base to prepare for a small-scale mechanized operation.

To this end, one hundred and eighty tanks, one hundred and thirty personnel carriers with three thousand six hundred infantry poured out.

This time his goal is to break through Yelets and turn it into ruins.

"General, do you want to deal with these scouts?" The gunner in the tank asked.

"No need, it's not fun to let our enemies fight us in the castle where they are, keep the speed behind them." Qi Guangyi's eyes flashed with a hint of playfulness.

Ahead, Oleg desperately urged the horse that sat down, and turned back as he galloped, and when he found that these machines were not as fast as the horses, he felt a little relieved.

But the sudden appearance of the Imperial army was still full of uncertainty, and he kept urging his horses, and at noon he finally met Yelets.

During this time, more and more scouts discovered this strange line of imperial troops.

"Colonel Maxim, we're in trouble." Oleg rushed into the city and immediately climbed the walls.

At this time, a middle-aged man was standing on the city gate and was observing the situation outside Yelets, he was Yelets's commander Maxim.

"You still need to say that our enemies are under our noses." Maxim frowned.

All these years of peace and quiet were the norm, but there is no doubt that this calm was suddenly broken.

"I don't know what these goddamn machines do, but they seem to be over 3,000 people." Maxim's eyes twinkled, "And Yerets' Cossack cavalry has 10,000 men." “

"With so few people running to Yelets, they must have something to rely on." Maxim's side stood his lieutenant.

"Then let those Cossacks test their depths." Maxim was a typical nobleman, he had no affection for the Cossacks, who in his opinion were a bunch of lowly people.

The adjutant nodded, and immediately dispatched three thousand Cossack cavalry out of the city to fight.

More than 3,000 cavalry rushed out of the city, and the Cossack cavalry immediately rushed at the Imperial army with their sabers.

This time, the Empire's lancers did not appear, which made them suddenly a little unscrupulous, because here they encountered the fierce lancers the most.

In front of the Yelets fortress was a vast flat area, and after discovering that a large number of cavalry had rushed out of Yelets, Qi Guangyi decisively ordered the tanks to line up in a horizontal line to hedge against the Cossack cavalry.

At the same time, the soldiers on the personnel carriers also entered a combat posture and were ready to shoot at any time.

"Ula ......"

The Cossack cavalry did not hesitate much in the face of the strange Imperial machinery, and among the troops of Tsarist Russia, the Cossacks hated the Imperial soldiers the most, because it was the Imperial Lancers who annihilated more than 20,000 of them when they rescued the Golden Horde, which damaged their honor and called into question their combat effectiveness.

So, as soon as they went into battle, every Cossack cavalryman was filled with hatred in their hearts.

It's just that the times seem to play a joke on them, and when they wield their sabers and slash at the Empire's tanks, the only thing they get is the crisp sound of metal clashes.

Some of the reluctant Cossack cavalry were very unwilling, and they repeatedly slashed around the tank, but could not cause even the slightest damage to the tank.

And the strange machinery of the empire was also quiet, and the clanging sound of a circle of Cossack cavalry slashed and resounded throughout the battlefield.

Maxim's expression was the same as Oleg's, they both looked like they had seen a ghost.

On the battlefield, the Cossack cavalry, having lost their patience, quickly lost their patience, and they began to look at the soldiers on the machine.

But just as they were about to turn their horses around and leave, a scene they would never forget.

One hundred and eighty steel monsters suddenly turned, and the Cossack cavalry, who had no time to dodge, were directly crushed by the steel monsters.

After the terrible scream, a puddle of flesh and mud was exposed under the mechanical monster, and at the same time, a fire suddenly appeared in front of the mechanical monster, and a dense fire of "Da ......" was heard.

One by one, the Cossack cavalry who came in a gallop fell.

Faced with this situation, the Cossack cavalry, surrounded by tanks, became even more anxious, they frantically chopped the tanks, but this did nothing.

And at this time the soldiers behind the tank seemed to be tired of the game, a series of shots were heard, and the Cossack cavalry around the tank fell.

The tank continued to advance, but at a faster pace, and the charging Cossacks were as fragile as babies facing adults in front of the tanks.

The three thousand Cossack cavalry came out as quickly as they could, and the only remaining few hundred Cossack cavalry fled back to Yerets in terror.